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The legacy media: no matter how much you hate them, it’s not enough.
These are the people, after all, who lionised a drug-addled career criminal as the hero of the age, while peddling years of blatant and corrosive lies, such as that President Donald Trump ‘called white supremacists very fine people’. They’re still at it.
The legacy media have spent months trying – with much success on the left – to turn yet more horrible people doing horrible things into supposed ‘angels’. When Renee Good and Alex Pretti committed multiple felonies and violently attacked federal law enforcement, they were not doing so in a noble cause. They were, quite literally, aiding and abetting violent illegal aliens, who were subject to extensive and serious criminal charges.
But when it comes to the innocent victims of the many violent criminals and rapists who flooded into the US under the Democrats’ disastrous open borders policies? Crickets.
White House officials on Monday leveled sharp criticism at CNN and MSNOW for their decision not to air an event honoring families who lost loved ones to crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.
The event coincided with President Donald Trump’s declaration of February 23 as “Angel Families Day,” a date marking two years since the death of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley.
This is almost as shameful as the Democrats’ stony-faced silence when Laken Riley and other raped and murdered young women were honoured at President Trump’s State of the Union address last year.
The friction began Monday morning when White House Communications Director Steven Cheung took to social media to call the lack of coverage “sickening and horrific.”
Cheung pointed out that while Riley’s mother, Allyson Phillips, was delivering an emotional speech, the networks were not broadcasting the proceedings.
Because they’re simply far more interested in trying to turn criminal rapists and violent leftists into martyrs. Innocent slain white girls? Feh.
During the event, several speakers shared personal stories, including a police officer who recounted his previous arrest of Riley’s killer in New York City on child endangerment charges months before the murder occurred.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt used the officer’s testimony to further her critique of the media, claiming that networks refuse to air segments that do not align with specific political narratives. Leavitt argued that the public deserves to see the stories that drive the administration’s strict immigration enforcement policies.
The media, of course, are all spluttering indignation.
The criticism eventually sparked a back-and-forth between the White House and other media members. After an NBC News correspondent questioned the administration’s attacks on the press, Leavitt responded by stating the president’s frustration stems directly from what the White House views as a refusal to cover the victims of illegal immigration.
When asked about the lack of live coverage, a CNN spokesperson said, “At the time of the White House event, CNN was covering the breaking news around the historic blizzard impacting millions of Americans.”
Maybe the White House should have said they’d found some frozen illegal immigrants in the Rose Garden. The media would have come running.
